Having reached the Union House, some of them mixed with
the crowd in McGinty's saloon, whispering across the bar to the
Boss that the job had been well carried through. Others, and
among them McMurdo, broke away into side streets, and so by
devious paths to their own homes.
Chapter 4 - The Valley of Fear
When McMurdo awoke next morning he had good reason to remember
his initiation into the lodge. His head ached with the effect of
the drink, and his arm, where he had been branded, was hot and
swollen. Having his own peculiar source of income, he was
irregular in his attendance at his work; so he had a late
breakfast, and remained at home for the morning writing a long
letter to a friend. Afterwards he read the Daily Herald. In a
special column put in at the last moment he read:
OUTRAGE AT THE HERALD OFFICE--EDITOR SERIOUSLY INJURED.
It was a short account of the facts with which he was himself
more familiar than the writer could have been. It ended with the
statement:
The matter is now in the hands of the police; but it can hardly
be hoped that their exertions will be attended by any better
results than in the past.
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